Simplify. Focus. Stay on track. Keep a single gaze. Don’t make it complex. Those are all exhortations to the single goal we should strive for each day of the Christian life.
If we try hard we can listen and pick up the steady tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock of the clock of our lives second-by-second, minute-by-minute, and year-by-year moving us to the day it stops and our lives on this earth come to an end.
If God uses His people to comfort His people, are we being used by Him? Are we ministers of comfort to God‘s hurting people?
LUKE 22:31-34: “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,32but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen yourbrothers.”33Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.”34Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not…
ROMANS 5:1-5: Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance,4and endurance produces…
LUKE 19:41-44: And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem…